Power Quotes

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
– Joseph Stalin
I believe in delegating power.
– Hillary Clinton
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
– Leif Garrett
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
– James Naismith
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
– Noam Chomsky
I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.
– Sherri Shepherd
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
– Susan Orlean
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
– Benjamin F. Wade
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
– Abigail Adams
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
– Todd Gitlin
I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
– Ayelet Waldman
Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
– Jane Siberry
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
– Philip Zimbardo
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
– Barack Obama
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
– Ralph Fiennes
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
– Joseph Conrad
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
– Plato
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
– Valerie Jarrett
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
– Ron Kind
Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
– Spike Lee
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
– Simone Weil
Everything is generated through your own will power.
– Ray Bradbury
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
– Chris Martin
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
– Tom Hanks
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
– Samuel Richardson
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
– Andrew Jackson
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
– William Moulton Marston
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
– Ambrose Bierce
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
– Wendell Phillips
Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
– Christopher Walken
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
– Deborah Tannen
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
– Thomas Hobbes
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
– Barbara Corcoran
Doing the right thing has power.
– Laura Linney
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
– Andrew Jackson
Culture follows power.
– Fareed Zakaria
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
– William Plomer
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
– Noam Chomsky
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
– John F. Kennedy
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
– Ai Weiwei
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
– Charlotte Davis Kasl
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
– Barney Frank
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
– George Bernard Shaw
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
– Mark Zuckerberg
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
– Alan Watts
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
– Edward Gibbon
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
– Amelia Barr
But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.
– Joshua Chamberlain
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
– Jeff Goodell
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
– Joan Jett
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
– Stokely Carmichael
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
– Huey Newton
Biology always beats will power.
– Mehmet Oz
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
– Dee Dee Myers
Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
– Gwen Stefani
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
– Peace Pilgrim
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
– John Adams
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
– Harry Segall
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
– Tom Stoppard
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
– Toni Morrison
As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
– Jessica Simpson
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
– Barack Obama
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
– Alvin Adams
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
– Charles Babbage
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
– Paul Ryan
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
– Adam Schiff
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
– Baruch Spinoza
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
– Black Elk
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
– Dee Dee Myers
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
– Theodore Bikel
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
– Simone de Beauvoir
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
– Thomas Paine
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
– Edmund Burke
A word after a word after a word is power.
– Margaret Atwood
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
– Pierre Corneille
A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
– Charles Babbage
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
– Aristotle
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
– Dean Koontz
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
– John Kasich
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
– Deborah Norville
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
– Hillary Clinton
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
– John Acton
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
– Ansel Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
– Henry B. Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
– Henry B. Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
– John Adams
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
– Saul Alinsky
Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
– James Allen
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
– James Allen
Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.
– David Allen
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
– Chris Van Allsburg
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.
– Tori Amos
If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.
– Sparky Anderson
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
– Jean Anouilh